HEART STOPPED FOR FIVE MINUTES
SURPRISING OPERATION CASE LONDON, January 27. The "British Medical Journal" records the extraordinary case of John Puckering, aged 58, a Birmingham gardener, whose heart and breathing completely stopped _ for five minutes while Dr. Pernval Mills was operating on him for a duodenal ulcer. Dr. Mills '■• aid: "Everybody in the operating theatre believed the patient was dead, and I continued with heart massage only from a sense of public duty, while my assistant injected adrenalin. Suddenly I felt a faint flicker and the heart started beating vigorously again. Artificial respiration continued while I hurriedly completed the operation. "Three weeks later Puckering had completely recovered. He has now resumed gardening."
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21384, 29 January 1935, Page 11
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